Zoic Studios Aboard Joss Whedon's Serenity

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MO1962

Friday, April 30, 2004 11:46 AM

http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4506

Zoic Studios Aboard Joss Whedon's Serenity
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Friday, April 30, 2004

Zoic Studios has been recruited to produce the visual effects for Joss Whedon's upcoming Serenity for Universal Studios, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The Culver City-based visual effects boutique is perhaps best known for its work for Whedon on Fox's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly -- the small-screen predecessor to Serenity that Fox canceled after airing 11 episodes.

Zoic creative director Loni Peristere will serve as the visual effects supervisor for the sci-fi feature.

CALHOUN

Friday, April 30, 2004 1:38 PM

Yay!

Zoic did a good job with Firefly. I like their kung-fu.

BROWNCOAT1

Friday, April 30, 2004 1:45 PM

Good news indeed, though not entirely unexpected. I figured Zoic would be tapped to do the visual effects for the movie since they did such an excellent job w/ the show.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

SHINY

Friday, April 30, 2004 2:51 PM

Hooray for Zoic! Hooray for Loni!!! Hooray for Joss' Loyalty!!!!!

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SNIPER

Friday, April 30, 2004 3:08 PM

This is excellent news! They do a great job with their work.

NOOCYTE

Friday, April 30, 2004 3:09 PM

This is truly splendid news, and does indeed speak to the team loyalty which shone through every frame of the show.

Does anyone know if Zoic has done any big-screen work in the past? Not that I'm overly concerned; their work was practically film-caliber as it was, with some of the deepest renders I've seen on TV (I'm a bit of a special effects connoisseur, and I was shocked to discover that there was no miniature of Serenity!). I'm confident that they can scale up to good effect.

This is really starting to take shape (does happy dance. shoots nervous glances about to make sure he was unobserved)!

Keep Flyin'!!

Department of Redundancy Department

KASUO

Friday, April 30, 2004 3:24 PM

Don't know about big-screen work but they did work on the Battlestar Galactica rehash last year.

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MO1962

Friday, April 30, 2004 11:07 PM

I took a look at their website ( http://www.zoicstudios.com/) and most of the stuff they've done is TV...Firefly, Buffy and some neat looking commericals.

Here's what CHUD has to say:

http://chud.com/news/april04/apr30serenecgi.php3

SERENE CGI

4.30.04
By Devin Faraci
Contributing sources: Carl Robertson, Hollywood Reporter

While it was on TV, Joss Whedon’s Firefly didn’t have a ton of special effects shots, but the few they did feature were pretty darn good. Part of what made the FX work was the fact that the CGI space craft would be shot realistically – using zooms, with blurry rack focuses (foci?) and shaky cam. The people who did that FX, Zoic Studios, have been brought on board for the big screen version of Firefly, Serenity.

“Loni Peristere and Zoic constantly expand my concept of what can be done with digital effects," Whedon said. "They're masters of the new technology, but not slaves to it. What they did on my TV show I had never seen in a movie. What they'll do on my movie ... I'm just really excited to be working with these lunatics."

Having Zoic onboard helps allay fears that Serenity’s low low budget (maybe as low as 40 million dollars) will affect the look of the film. They should be able to get the best quality for the lowest price possible.

ECGORDON

Friday, April 30, 2004 11:19 PM

I have no doubt that Zoic will do an excellent job on Serenity, but I have another concern about the visual style of Firefly in general. Will the hand-held camera work (the style of which was duplicated for the FX) look good on the big screen, or will it be more disorienting than effective, as it was on tv?

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

HAKEN

Friday, April 30, 2004 11:40 PM

Well, one thing for sure, a lot of the modeling and design work have already been completed. That should at least cut down on some of the production cost.

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